The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-23
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At her home, near Harveyvile, Kan, Marc
81, 1887, MaIvina, wife of A. G. Walton. Tn
deceased was the daughter of Nathan ant
Mary Jane Tabor, and was born near Mus
catine, Ia, in 1851. At the age of twelv
years she was deprived by death of a moth
er's love and care, and at fourteen her twin
sister, who up to that time had been her con
slant companion, left her eide and passed on
This left her in such a lonely condition thai
friends were greatly alarmed for her safety
A few years after the family was broken up
causing her to suffer greatly for the loss Of
her home. Ever sensitive to her surroundings
| her pathway in life was sometimes thorny
| OIL @, which she walked with torn and bleed
| ing feet. In 1888 she became the wife OF
A. G. Walton. The union to her was hap
by one. She loved her ever kind and in
duIgent husband; she loved his little girls
and loved her home, and her mother-love for
her babe was tender and strong. But she is
gone The loss of the stricken family SIRE
parable, and the community in which she
lived will greatly miss her; but while there is
parting and sadness here there is, we believe,
a joyous meeting in our own spirit home,
where her brow, cooled by the perfumed
breezes from the ever blooming gardens of
the summer land, and the songs of angels,
will soothe her into calm content. Memorial
services were held at Harveyville on Sunday,
April 3, by Rev. I. w. Woodrow. The fu-
neral, which was largely attended, was con-
Quoted by the 1. o. 0. F., of Harveyville,
March %, T.w.w W.
At Linn, Washington county, Kan, April
g. 1887, of pneumonia, Mrs. Lovina Gilbert
aged as years, month and 20 days. Sister
Gilbert was born Feb. 6, 1871, in Union
county, Pa, moved with her parents to San
dusky county, o., when about six years of
age; united in marriage with j. r. Gilbert,
Dec %, 1859, with whom she lived in happy
union up to her death, little over twenty
seven years. Sister Gilbert leaves husband,
six daughters and two sons to mourn her de-
parture. All was done that the family ply
stefan and kind, loving hands could do to re-
store her to health, but it was ordered other
wise and we bow to the will of Him who
doeth all things we'll. Sister Gilbert was
brought up in the orthodox faith by her pa
rents, who were members of the United
Brethren church, but when she grew to
womanhood she gradually grew out of that
faith and adopted faith in harmony with
enlightened reason and the Bible. She did
not have the opportunity of attending Uni
versalst meetings, and, therefore, never unit
ed with any church, Notwithstanding her
whole life was that of truly Christian
woman. She was true to all the relations of
life, and was devoted wife, a kind and
affectionate mother, a good neighbor, a quiet
and peaceable citizen. In her last moments,
when her stricken husband said to her, d"
fear you are going to leave as" and when ii
became evident she must depart this life, she
was wholly resigned, saying, All is well
with me-" then saying to her husband and
children, :" Be good and do right" and thus
passed this good woman over the river to the
other shore. Services were conducted in the
M. E. church, April 6, by Rev. j. Wilson, OF
Frankfort, Kan, where a large concourse OF
people assembled to pay their last respects
u. W.